Is Haley Lu Richardson's Instagram presence corny? Maybe. Does the 'White Lotus' star care? Definitely not. iWatchiAm reports
, then so be it. Richardson does not let awkwardness or self-consciousness on social media faze her. “I saw a meme the other day that said, ‘I’m cringe, but at least I’m free.’ I relate to that so much because I would so much rather be considered cringe by someone — or anyone or everyone — and feel free and feel like I’m being myself than be stifled by these external opinions.”
Richardson wasn’t always this sure of herself. In fact, she tells me, she spent the first decade of her career building up to this moment of self-acceptance. “I didn’t know anything about acting or have any connections,” she recalls of moving to Los Angeles with her mother at 16. The first few years of her career were spent dancing in the Rose Bowl parade and backing up Bella Thorne and Zendaya in the Disney Channel series.
“Portia is a deeply unsatisfied person,” the actor says of her character. “She’s deeply searching for life to present something that will fulfill her.” Richardson, and surely at least a few of the show’s Gen-Z viewers, could relate to that 20-something restlessness.
Richardson left Italy in July feeling energized and ready for what’s next, and she credits her time onwith pushing her to expand her creative horizons. At the moment, she’s taking a beat and searching for a chance to “level up” in her career. “I want to be challenged by the stories I’m telling, the characters I’m playing, and the people I’m surrounded with when I’m working,” she says.
As we wrap up, Richardson and I compare projects. She’s crocheted a good inch of her sleeve, though she says at one point that her stitches are “very tight” and might have to be redone, while I have barely managed to knit three rows of my baby blanket. “We’re not the best at this,” she says. Maybe not, but a few days later, I see on Instagram that she has completed her sweater sleeves, while my unfinished baby blanket remains untouched.
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